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Information about Bill Status XML Bulk Data including the XML User Guide.
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS
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missing actionTime (THOMAS has it) #19

Closed JoshData closed 8 years ago

JoshData commented 8 years ago

In BILLSTATUS-114hconres111.xml, and on the corresponding page on Congress.gov, an action item is missing an actionTime that THOMAS has.

The bulk data (no actionTime):

<item>
    <type>Discharge</type>
    <text>Committee on House Administration discharged.</text>
    <sourceSystem>
        <code>2</code>
        <name>House floor actions</name>
    </sourceSystem>
    <committee>
        <systemCode>hsha00</systemCode>
        <name>House Administration Committee</name>
    </committee>
    <actionDate>2016-02-10</actionDate>
    <actionCode>H12300</actionCode>
</item>
<item>
    <type>Committee</type>
    <text>Committee on House Administration discharged.</text>
    <sourceSystem>
        <code>9</code>
        <name>Library of Congress</name>
    </sourceSystem>
    <committee>
        <systemCode>hsha00</systemCode>
        <name>House Administration Committee</name>
    </committee>
    <actionDate>2016-02-10</actionDate>
    <actionCode>5500</actionCode>
</item>

THOMAS (I forget how to permalink):

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This isn't really a problem necessarily, but I wanted to flag it in case there's an underlying bug.

104PL104 commented 8 years ago

See "actionTime (e.g., 18:16:46; Note: Only present for House floor actions ONLY process timestamps when sourceSystem code value=2)" in the User Guide.

JoshData commented 8 years ago

This is a House floor action.

104PL104 commented 8 years ago

Good point. We need to further clarify the User Guide note to exclude type=Discharge, and possibly also type=Reported. Those are two paper-pushing type actions that don't happen on the floor. They push paper toward the floor from a committee. No one is recording time stamps for those.

JoshData commented 8 years ago

In BILLSTATUS-114hr3762.xml, the veto override roll call vote is missing the time.